All Together: Increased Teamwork and Worker Participation
While Frederick Winslow Taylor's scientific management approach is still widely used in some industries, American managers have for some time followed their Japanese counterparts in emphasizing teamwork and worker partic..
All Together: Organizational Culture: Norms and Values
Every group or organization has its own unique culture-that is, the norms and values that are specific to that particular group or organization. Often, an organization's or group's culture reflects the culture of the soc..
All Together: Organizational Culture: Rules and Conformity
Many organizations are intolerant of ideas and viewpoints that don't fit into their culture. The result in some cases is a kind of "group-think" or conformity that can severely undermine an organization's effectiveness.
All restrictions end: the politics of clothes
This film discusses the evolution of fashion in contemporary Iran. With clothing as the leitmotif, the filmmaker provides the history of Iran, the country of his birth. The film is structured like a collage, interweaving..
All's well that ends well
Here Shakespeare uses one of his favorite devices - trickery - in a plot relished by Elizabethan playgoers. The new wife of a young count resorts to chicanery to win her husband's respect, a typical ploy of medieval roma..
Allocating Costs and Profits
The mathematics used to determine the profitability of a product or service by proper allocation of overhead costs.
Alternative Sources of Energy
Paul Ehrlich, best known for his work on population growth, discusses solar hydrogen technology as an alternative to fossil fuels and nuclear energy.
Alzheimer's Disease and Aging
Dr. Andrew Leuchter, Director of Adult Psychiatry at UCLA, talks about the way Alzheimer's disease sometimes presents itself as people age. Dr. Leuchter also discusses the impact of the illness, particularly when the aff..
Alzheimer's Disease and Genetics
Dr. Andrew Leuchter, Director of Adult Psychiatry at UCLA, explains that, "...it's clear that there are genetic predispositions to development of Alzheimer's disease late in life..." Dr. Leuchter adds that some of those ..
Alzheimer's Disease and the Brain
Dr. Andrew Leuchter, Director of Adult Psychiatry at UCLA, explains that the brains of those afflicted with Alzheimer's disease have , "... characteristic neuropathology if one looks at the hippocampus area, which is the..